cord

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n. 細(xì)繩；索

Retailers?are selling $60?cords?for Apple’s wireless Airpods.
有零售商在出售用于蘋(píng)果無(wú)線耳機(jī)Airpods的繩套，其售價(jià)為60美元。

Back in the year 2016, we had no problems. Well, okay, that’s not true. We had some problems. But our headphones weren’t one of them.?
在2016年的時(shí)候，我們沒(méi)遇到什么問(wèn)題。好吧，事實(shí)并非如此。我們確實(shí)遇到了一些問(wèn)題。但那時(shí)候我們的耳機(jī)還沒(méi)什么問(wèn)題。

That’s because headphones featured a universal design that was based upon a simple 3.5 mm jack that had been around for over a century.?
那是因?yàn)?00多年來(lái)，耳機(jī)一直遵循著通用設(shè)計(jì)，也就是普通的3.5毫米的插孔。

Then Apple killed the standard audio jack in iPhones and introduced its $159 wireless Airpods.
后來(lái)，蘋(píng)果公司沒(méi)有在蘋(píng)果手機(jī)上采用標(biāo)準(zhǔn)音頻插孔，還推出了其售價(jià)159美元的無(wú)線耳機(jī)。

Wireless earbuds seem great, of course, until one falls out of your ear and down a sewer grate. Single Airpod Syndrome is a very real consequence of the new, untethered world of audio. That’s why Apple actually offers single Airpod replacements. That’s also why one company called Tapper introduced a solution of its own: Airpod cords.
當(dāng)然，無(wú)線耳機(jī)看上去很棒，直到一只耳機(jī)從耳朵里掉出來(lái)，并掉進(jìn)下水道的格柵里。單一無(wú)線耳機(jī)綜合征（掉進(jìn)下水道里？）是新的不受束縛的音頻世界的一個(gè)很真實(shí)的后果，因此蘋(píng)果公司還提供了用于替換的單一無(wú)線耳機(jī)，而一家名為T(mén)apper的公司也提供了其特有的解決方案：無(wú)線耳機(jī)繩套。

First spotted by Boingboing, the $60 strap wraps around your neck and connects to your Airpods via magnets. That means if one falls out of your ear, it’s anchored to your body—like a rope climber is anchored to a mountain, or, you know, a normal, wired pair of earbuds were once anchored to your phone.?
Boingboing（綜合類博客）首先發(fā)現(xiàn)了這款售價(jià)60美元的繩套，它可以纏在脖子上，并通過(guò)磁鐵連接到無(wú)線耳機(jī)上。這意味著，如果一只耳機(jī)從耳朵里掉出來(lái)，它會(huì)掛在你身上，就像系著繩子爬山的人被固定在山上一樣，或者是，你知道的，就像曾固定在你的手機(jī)上的普通有線耳機(jī)一樣。

What more is there to say here? We’re talking about a $60 product that adds wires to a product designed to remove wires from your life. The most hilarious twist is that Tapper’s cord actually has 4/5 stars on Nordstrom right now!?
這還有什么好說(shuō)的呢？我們討論的是一款為一種產(chǎn)品增加繩套的產(chǎn)品，其售價(jià)為60美元，而那種產(chǎn)品原本的設(shè)計(jì)就是為了擺脫繩套。最滑稽的是，Tapper公司的這款繩套目前在Nordstrom（美國(guó)高檔連鎖百貨店）上的評(píng)分為4星（滿分5星）。

Even if half those reviews are ironic, and the other half are planted, that’s still pretty impressive for a few inches of cordage. And a pretty sad commentary on the state of headphones, three years after Apple destroyed a perfectly good universal standard.
即使這些評(píng)價(jià)中有一半是在諷刺這款產(chǎn)品，另一半是（推廣者）精心設(shè)計(jì)的，但對(duì)于這款幾英寸長(zhǎng)的繩套來(lái)說(shuō)，這依然很令人印象深刻。在蘋(píng)果公司毀掉完美的通用標(biāo)準(zhǔn)三年后，這也是目前很令人難過(guò)的耳機(jī)現(xiàn)狀的寫(xiě)照了。

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cord

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n. 細(xì)繩；索

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nylon cord 尼龍繩

The cord pulled tight, choking off her breath.??
繩子拉得緊緊的, 把她勒得透不過(guò)氣。